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Claude alternatives, graded

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Claude scores highest on its shelf, 13½ of 19 (grade B), so every alternative below scores the same or lower: Gemini (12½, B−), ChatGPT (12, C+), Mistral Vibe (12, C+) lead the ranking. Every grade is read from the maker's own page, checked 22 October 2026 to 3 November 2026, never from a review.

B
Claude · 13½ of 19
8
assistants to compare
0
score higher
22 October 2026 to 3 November 2026
Makers' pages checked

Every assistant on the record, ranked

Claude’s own row is shaded. The six columns are the tests a person switching asks about first; each product page has every test, with the maker’s line and the source.

assistantGradeRemembersExport memoryStop trainingExport chatsDelete accountPrice public
Claude#1 · Anthropic · this oneB13½/19
Gemini#2 · GoogleB−12½/19
ChatGPT#3 · OpenAIC+12/19
Mistral Vibe#4 · MistralC+12/19
Perplexity#5 · PerplexityC10½/19
Copilot#6 · MicrosoftC10/19
Grok#7 · xAID7/19
DeepSeek#8 · DeepSeekF5/19
Meta AI#9 · MetaF5/19
  • Remembers · Does it remember across a new chat?
  • Export memory · Can you export its memory?
  • Stop training · Can you stop your chats training its models?
  • Export chats · Can you export all your chats from it yourself?
  • Delete account · Can you delete your whole account with it yourself?
  • Price public · Does it put every plan's price on a public page?

Claude alternatives, by what matters

6 assistants that let you stop your chats training the model

  1. B− Gemini
  2. C+ ChatGPT
  3. C+ Mistral Vibe
  4. C Perplexity
  5. D Grok
  6. F DeepSeek

Claude passes this test too.

The one assistant that let you export all your chats

  1. C Copilot

Claude's grade on this test: partly.

What Anthropic changed lately

  1. Since 3 November 2026, text generated by Claude Mythos 5, Claude Opus 4.7 and Claude Sonnet 4.6 carries Anthropic's text watermark on the platforms Anthropic lists; on Sonnet 4.6 a request that sets temperature, top_p or top_k to a non-default value might not carry it. The Decoder reported on 4 November that a notice to API customers extends the watermark to Claude Opus 4.6, Opus 4.5, Sonnet 4.5 and Haiku 4.5 from 16 November 2026, a few days later on Amazon Bedrock, with the same caveat, and that customers cannot turn it off.

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  2. The pricing page lists a new Ultra plan at $200 a month and Max at $100 a month only; on 23 October 2026 it listed Max in two tiers, the higher one priced only on a help page. The usage-limits page says verified Ultra accounts have no five-hour session limit. Neither page dates the change.

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  3. Anthropic deprecated fast mode for Claude Opus 4.8 on 30 October 2026, with removal on 30 November 2026. After that, API requests to claude-opus-4-8 that set speed to fast return an error; Anthropic points people who want fast mode to Claude Opus 5.5.

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Every change from Anthropic, dated →

Alternatives to the others

The whole shelf: The Scorecard. How the grades are made: How we grade. No maker pays for a place or a grade.